Root into Writing 2 With Robyn Moreno

Welcome to Root into Writing II:
A Six-Week Guided Writing
Course

“Story is powerful medicina. For most of our lives, someone else has written our narratives. Writing our stories is our soul retrieval.

Rooted where you are now, what is the new, true story you can write?

You are holding the pen. You are the poet; your life is the poem.”

—Robyn Moreno, Get Rooted

Writing is a form of channeling, conjuring, dreaming, and healing. I believe we are all writers and seers, storytellers and poets, documentarians and observers of this thing called Life. We all have stories that live inside of us.

It’s time to tell yours.

Only 1 spot left! Register below!

What is Root into Writing 2?

Root into Writing II is a six-week online course designed to help you grow your voice, strengthen your writing practice, and expand your writing skills.

Over the span of six weeks, we will explore elements of craft across different genres to help you find your authentic voice and let it fly in a warm, fun, and inspiring[ setting.

We will use our signature Root into Writing framework— meditation, writing prompts, and a supportive circle—to excavate your unique voice and tap into the river of stories that live in you.

Participants can bring in fragments, a draft, or nothing at all, but we will leave with fresh pages that you can continue to craft into a longer piece or collection.

*Completion of Root into Writing I is required for enrollment in Root into Writing II

When?

Six consecutive Wednesdays beginning October 15th, 1-3pm EST

In our immersive two-hour Zoom session, we’ll start with a grounding meditation, followed by a short lesson, and then a writing prompt and share.

This is for YOU:

Are ready to take your writing to the next level
Are currently working on a story or piece but are unsure how to proceed
Are yearning to establish a consistent writing practice but can’t seem to find the time and space in your busy schedule
Crave a supportive community to help you on this journey
Want a holistic approach to the writing process where you feel grounded, heard, and safe

Exchange

Cost is $363 for six-week course

Pay 1/2 now, 1/2 by end of class option

Cancellation policy: Because of small class size, there will be a 50% refund if you cancel before the second class, and no refund after class start of second session. You can transfer your payment to a future offering of this class.

Syllabus, Fall 2025

—Week One: Starting the Journey, What's Your Question?

Consciously or unconsciously, most writers set out on a journey to answer a question. What brought you to this class? What is the question you are trying to answer? We’ll read excerpts from different authors and use prompts to uncover our (or our characters’) guiding questions, so our work can begin to unfold (and our voices emerge) as we write towards finding an answer.

—Week Two: Setting the Scene, Creating Our Worlds

Orientation is important in life and literature. Where are we? We begin by exploring place, time and mood in our writing. We’ll read literature, awaken to the environment around us through mindfulness activities and sensory engagement, and visit our inner and outer landscapes to help find our (and our characters’) places on the map, and begin to create vivid and transporting worlds on our pages.

—Week Three: Developing Characters, Finding Voice

In this class, we’ll work side by side with first and third person narratives across both fiction and nonfiction to help establish which device is best for you. This exploration can allow you move deeper into more personal pieces and awaken voices inside of you didn’t even know you had.

—Week Four: Flower Songs, Playing With Poetry

The ancient Mexica (Aztecs) called poems “flower songs” and held them sacred. We’ll read poetry across time and cultures to shape our own flower songs. We’ll explore rhythm, rhyme, and repetition and try them in our poetry to see what feels right—and what doesn’t. Prose writers can learn to use poetry to help them sharpen their imagery, rhythm, syntax, and sense of surprise. This is a fun and exploratory class that invites more play into our writing.

—Week Five: Dialogue, Saying It Out Loud

Dialogue shows and tells about our characters through their voices. We’ll examine different types of dialoguing to unearth authentic voices—do people really talk like that? And examine what’s left unsaid (the silences, expressions, and body language) to build story tension and reveal plot.

—Week Six: Revision, Revision, Revision

Deleting, editing, adding, clarifying, analyzing word choice, we’ll use published works and famous authors’ personal notes to examine the paramount tool of revision to see how they got from here to there. And in our final session, we’ll share our work out loud with the group at large to practice the arts of witnessing and of receiving loving feedback.

What To Expect

This is a generative course, which means that you will write every session.
Every session we listen to each other share our writing, which means you will have the opportunity to read your work aloud. But only if you want to!
We are all baby writers here (even if you are an experienced author) and we will welcome all stories with the gentle care and encouragement all early writing deserves.
We’ll offer homework and prompts between sessions to keep the channels open.
We'll have a private chat group, so we can share insights and ask questions between sessions.
It's okay if you have to miss a class! Each class is recorded, and replays are available. They will be made private only to the group.
The course is limited to 10 participants (Only 1 spot currently available)

About Your Guide

Robyn Moreno

Robyn Moreno is a storyteller and has written, edited, and contributed to four books. Her latest Get Rooted won the 2024 International Latino Book Award and was called: “beautiful, powerful, and useful to anyone who is ready for deep transformation" by Yung Pueblo.

Robyn is also a Curanderismo practitioner and meditation teacher and infuses all her work with a sense of wonder, joy, and ancestral magic.